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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailashsagarsuri Gyanmandir
1932
Ātman and Moksa
or in passionlessness and that he lived in the formless forever. He has become identical with the God in the land of disillusionment. His ego is mortified and he has become one with the eternal and pure.' In that state he obtained a new divine vision and the ideas of duality and identity vanished. All differences of space and time dropped away and the Self became one with the universe. The world existed no more and what was left was Parabrahman. He embraced the Brahman as himself. Tukārāma attained the joy of the Brahman by properly realising the meaning of “That thou art”? He becomes eternally free from rebirth as a baked seed does not sprout, and the sugar cannot be retransformed into sugarcane.3 In the final state of union all ripeness is achieved; passions like desire, anger, greed vanish and the universe is filled with joy; all ideas of existence and non-existence are forgotten as he himself has become Pānduranga... There is no trace of merit and demerit, of happiness and pain; death is overcome while alive; the roots of saiasāra are destroyed; all distinctions of caste and colour disappear and falsehood is forgotten forever.
Tukārāma attained immortality as his death itself died;' he saw his own death with his own eyes and became free forever from the round of births
I Paņasbikar (Editor): Tukaramachi Gathā, 3548, p. 723. 2 Ibid. 3549, p. 723. 3 Ibid. 3550, p. 723. 4 Ibid. 3551, 3553, pp. 723, 724. 5 Ibid. 3560, p. 725.
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